#yellow fritillary

[aloetheplant]

[heartnosekid]

butterflygardeninginspirations on ig

butterflies in order: gifs 1, 3, 5, 7, & 9 are the monarch butterfly (danaus plexippus), orange-barred sulphur (phoebis philea), gulf fritillary (agraulis vanillae), eastern black swallowtail (papilio polyxenes), and another gulf fritillary.

[celestialphotography]

If I could paint with summer sunshine

[vandaliatraveler]

Hazy mid-summer day on the Sods, Part 2.

The planet's fantastic life energy reaches its peak in mid to late summer as the sun's precious light shrinks by the day and every living thing senses its time is running out. On the Plains of Dolly Sods, where the growing season is already compressed by the high elevation, plants compete for the swirling, buzzing masses of insects with their gaudy blooms and produce successive waves of berries to seed new generations. The drone of the insects carrying out their instinctive missions of renewal is constantly in your head as they dive and dart and skirt around you. You barely register as a distraction against the great drama playing out here - one whose stakes are survival, regeneration, salvation. I feel so privileged to have connected with this life force in the most intimate way, even for the few short years of my mayfly existence. I will die a happy man for having immersed myself in its lovely, purposeful chaos and becoming part of something much greater than myself.

[dansnaturepictures]

21/07/2024-Honeysuckle, one of my first Silver-washed Fritillaries of the year, dashing Comma, ragwort and gorgeous views on a brilliant afternoon at Martin Down today.

Other highlights were my first ever Magpie moth and dewberry, my first Scarlet Tiger moth and wild basil of the year, loads of Marbled Whites, Ringlets, Gatekeepers and Meadow Browns which helped make another great Big Butterfly Count alongside other species seen I'm enjoying doing this important and fun activity a lot lately, Peacock butterfly, Red Admiral, Speckled Wood, sumptuous Dark Green Fritillaries, Large Skipper, Small Skipper, perhaps the last Swollen-thighed beetle I'll see this year, Black-and-Yellow Longhorn beetle, Common Red Soldier beetle, oil and ground beetle on a strong beetle day, spider possible wolf spider with egg sac, marjoram, mignonette, mugwort, honeysuckle, broad-leaved enchanter's nightshade, centaury, St. John's-wort, scabious, self-heal and red bartsia. Another top summer weekend.

[onenicebugperday]

@anthropobscene submitted: here are some beings I saw this summer in Massachusetts, US. ID welcome but not essential. Thanks!! 💚

A VERY excellent group of pals! They are in order: a rabid wolf mother and her one million babies, a large and beautiful yellow garden spider, unidentified jumping spider, a great spangled fritillary, a pure green sweat bee, a black swallowtail, a clearwing sphinx moth in the genus Hemaris, and some very cute and tiny but unidentified butterfly chrysalides :)

[dreamlessspring]

Fritillaria imperialis, the Kaiser's crown

[creativecommonsplants]

Ojai Fritillary by kailh on iNaturalist. 

This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. 

[ayanos-pl]

だいぶくたびれたツマグロヒョウモン♂（11月8日） Indian fritillary (Argynnis hyperbius) male

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Fritter Away with the Mormon Fritillary

The Mormon fritillary (Speyeria mormonia) is a common species of butterfly found throughout western North America. There are multiple subspecies distributed throughout its range, which extends from northern Canada to the southern United States, following the Rocky Mountain range. They are found in a variety of habitats, including alpine grasslands, meadows, and sparse pine forests.

Larval S. mormonia are almost entirely dependent on violets for food, while adults will also feed on milkweeds, thistles, and daisies, as well as mud puddles and animal waste. Birds, rodents, lizards, frogs, spiders, and mantids are all common predators of both caterpillar and adult Mormon fritillaries.

Mating for the Mormon fritillary occurs in mid to late summer. Males regularly search open areas for available females, and following an encounter females lay their fertilized eggs in leaf litter near patches of violets. After about 10 days the eggs hatch, but rather than feeding the caterpillars enter a period of hibernation that lasts throughout the winter. Come spring, they emerge and feed on their host plant for just over a month. Pupation takes 10-12 days, after which they emerge as fully mature adults. In the wild, individuals can live up to 4 years.

S. mormonia are rather small, but brightly colored butterflies. The wingspan for females ranges from 25-27mm (0.98-1.06 in), while males are slightly smaller at 23-26mm (0.9-1.02 in). The top wings of both sexes are orange with black spotting, while the undersides are lighter yellow with white spots, and the body is covered in brown or tan fur.

Conservation status: The Mormon fritillary has not been evaluated by the IUCN, but populations are generally considered to be stable across the US. Its most common threat is the disappearance of its host flower species.

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Photos

John Lane

Mark Leppin

David Inouye

[miyrumiyru]

🧡 Orange butterfly ❤️ Yellow flower 💛

(M) Pallas’s fritillary (Argynnis laodice)

[firstlawcedarprairie]

Indian Fritillary on the yellow cosmos

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Sunday 19 March 2023

The pale yellow flowers of Fritillaria raddeana (Radde’s fritillary, dwarf crown imperial) produce a final flourish for the Winter Garden at Cambridge Botanic Garden. This bulbous perennial is native to Iran, Turkmenistan and Kashmir.

Jill Raggett

[novella-november]

As promised, here's some pics from the garden :D

Pictures of Caterpillars who look Very Scary or Very Creepy follow, so if you don't have the tag "Catepillars" or "insects" filtered I would scroll past this.

Want a great example of why it's so important to plant native host plants and not use pesticides in your garden?

We grow tons of native plants in our garden, including native passionflowers, and we have for years, since they're perennials. We started a fresh batch of seedlings this year in the new garden area from seeds we saved last year and one particular seedling has taken of like there's no tomorrow - it is easily 5 times the size of all of the other plants, including the established ones!

And it has single-handedly been a host for probably a few hundred caterpillars of two different native species in just this single season, and it wasn't even started in early spring or anything.

Here's some pictures of all the little baby caterpillars, including pictures of one that is much more rare to see in our area -- until now that is!!

Gulf Fritillary butterflies are common in our area, and even people who don't garden are used to seeing them around, but much more rare to see are Zebra Longwings, and thanks to this one single, extremely vigourous seedling in particular, we've helped support a few hundred of them this year and more and more people in the surrounding neighborhood are starting to see them in their own yards !

Usually, each year, we'd get maybe a few dozen Gulf Fritillary caterpillars-- the ones who have orange bodies and black spikes; but this year, it started with just one Zebra Longwing laying eggs... and now multiple generations have all been supported on this single plant, starting out as teeny tiny eggs, then teeny tiny white catepillars, until they're huge and dramatic looking bright-white catepillars that look like they're from an alien planet, then they turn into creepy, dramatic, dark brown and spiky chrysalises..

... and then they turn into gorgeous black and yellow butterflies :D

I've included a little collection of pictures below, including

what the plant itself looks like when it's not blooming,

the sheer number of native catepillars on the passion flower,

what the Zebra Longwing chrysalis looks like,

Adult butterflies of both species

Another native passionflower leaf (passiflora lutea), which in our area is naturally varigated (not sure if its a subspecies or not??)

last but not least, three examples of Passiflora Incarnata blooms, one of these is the parent of the Extremely Vigorous Seedling (EVS) all these catepillars are on, and I am excited to see what the flowers look like on the EVS when it eventually flowers.

[uncleasad]

Blooms of October 1st

It’s October 1st and “only” 80°F, so summer should be coming to an end soon. The season’s blooms are mostly gone, but I thought I would have a look around the yard to see what was still blooming; this is one of just about everything—and some bonus fauna.

Gardenia, black-eyed Susans, Chinese forget-me-not, phlox, crape myrtle, vervain, marigold, zinnias, beefsteak plant, camphorweed (yellow) and late boneset (white), vinca, spider flower (cleome) with bonus gulf fritillary butterfly, brown-eyed Susans, “volunteer” yellow cherry tomato plant.

And bonus full-sized (red-shouldered, probably) hawk, ~20 feet in the air in a pecan tree, from ~50 ft away through the screen of my bathroom window, max digital zoom. Terrible photo, fun visitor! (This hawk is 3x to 4x the size of the hawk I posted yesterday!)

[dansnaturepictures]

March end of month post 1 of 3: Ten of my favourite plant and fungi photos I took in March 2024

Not quite the end of the month yet I know but as my March end of month posts are coming in three parts and I put them together on Thursday I thought I'd post one each night today, tomorrow and Sunday; tomorrow night at a similar time the post on ten of my favourite landscape and sky photos I took this month shall post and on Sunday ten of my favourite wildlife photos I took this month.

The photos in this set are of; daffodils and hyacinth at Lakeside Country Park, scarlet elf cup and jelly ear at Testwood Lakes, yellow fieldcap at Portland Bill, snake's-head fritillaries at Lakeside Country Park a sensation of my month as it often is in March, daffodil in Romsey, periwinkle in Winchester, wood anemone at Lakeside and common whitlowgrass at Denny Wood in the New Forest.

What a joy it has been to watch many more colourful floral delights emerge in March, many of them early in the theme of the year. Red and white deadnettle, speedwell, seas of lesser celandine, green alkanet, snowflakes, opposite-leaved golden saxifrage, herb-Robert, gorse, bluebells, primroses, ivy-leaved toadflax, cowslips, violet, daisies and dandelions have been other highlights as spring firmly took its grip. It's interesting that this is my fourth spring of really being into flowers and looking to identify all I've seen etc and whilst I'm so much more used to the species now there's always something to learn and I've seen some new ones this month which stood out so it always feels good. Turkey tail was another mushroom I saw a bit of this month as it was pleasant to encounter a few about.